alba sum
Yes, I am pale. Yes, I know I am pale. No, I don't tan. No, I don't care.
I'm pretty OK with this, which is why I'm wondering why three people in the past two days seem to have taken issue with it. It's not a recent, isolated set of incidents, either. I always get comments about how pale I am. Since I can remember I've had to field questions about why, even when I'm out in the sun six hours a day at the peak of summer, I hardly get any color. People I hardly know apparently think it's OK to make fun of how white I am.
I laugh at it because it's not worth my time, but after 20 years it's started to bother me. It my experience it's not really socially acceptable to ask someone, "why are you so dark?" Yes, there's the avoidance of historical stigmas at play there, of course, but honestly. At what point does it become acceptable to call someone out on something that is genetically defined?
Lately I've been itching to say back, "I don't know, why are you such a douchebag?" but I think that might be an overreaction.
I'm pretty OK with this, which is why I'm wondering why three people in the past two days seem to have taken issue with it. It's not a recent, isolated set of incidents, either. I always get comments about how pale I am. Since I can remember I've had to field questions about why, even when I'm out in the sun six hours a day at the peak of summer, I hardly get any color. People I hardly know apparently think it's OK to make fun of how white I am.
I laugh at it because it's not worth my time, but after 20 years it's started to bother me. It my experience it's not really socially acceptable to ask someone, "why are you so dark?" Yes, there's the avoidance of historical stigmas at play there, of course, but honestly. At what point does it become acceptable to call someone out on something that is genetically defined?
Lately I've been itching to say back, "I don't know, why are you such a douchebag?" but I think that might be an overreaction.